Small holdings
An attractive park in Palmers Green plays host to Phil, a chronically shy gardener who feels truly at home only with his plants. He and his gentle colleague Ray, a man with all the sense of a Savoy cabbage, are tortured by Doug, their imposing and unpredictable supervisor, and a malevolent one-legged ex-museum curator called Saleem. In love with the truck-obsessed Nancy, Phil strives nobly to maintain his equilibrium despite being systematically mystified, brutalised, drugged, derided and seduc…
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- Full title :Small holdings / Nicola Barker.
Summary
An attractive park in Palmers Green plays host to Phil, a chronically shy gardener who feels truly at home only with his plants. He and his gentle colleague Ray, a man with all the sense of a Savoy cabbage, are tortured by Doug, their imposing and unpredictable supervisor, and a malevolent one-legged ex-museum curator called Saleem. In love with the truck-obsessed Nancy, Phil strives nobly to maintain his equilibrium despite being systematically mystified, brutalised, drugged, derided and seduced. But when he loses his eyebrows, he decides to fight back.
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- Publication Date:1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:135 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0571175872, 9780571175871
- oclc:ocm34885947
- LC Classification:PR6052.A64876
- Dewey Decimal:823/.914
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